Lights

After our short trip down to Oregon this weekend, it was time for us to put the lights on the house. We started a little late today because Josh had to work until 3pm. It gets dark about 5pm or so which is a huge change from those long summer days of having light outside until about 10 o'clock at night. After replacing a few blown fuses and running a couple of power lines to handle the number of strands we had run, we finally finished. The lights look great!

We went in the house to have supper. After supper, my daughter Rebecca ran outside to inspect the job and see the pretty lights. After about 2 minutes, Becca came back and was very irritated. "I wanted to put up pink lights", she said. We just laughed and said that maybe next year we would put up multi-colored lights. This is definitely the last year we can use these clear lights - they have served their purpose.

I told my daughter that although God is the light of the world, it does not necessarily mean you will like the color of the light. God has a plan for each one of us and we may or may not like what that plan is - it is what it is.

As I am sitting here tonight thinking about that discussion (and smiling), I extended the analogy to everything that gone on the past several months with my family. There were many days that walked outside and was not happy with the color of the lights, but it is all part of God's plan. God has decorated all houses with a certain color of lights (His plan for us) and its up to us to find out how to get out of the house and see what color they are.

While we were out putting up the lights, one of the neighbors walked by with his children and said "We are enjoying the fruits of your labor, we really like your lights". So even though it may not have been the lights that Becca would have chosen to put on the house, somebody thought they were just right. God has a reason for everything that happens to us in life and whether we like it or not, we must accept it. Maybe next time we see the lights, they will be perfect - only God knows.....